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My neighbor is dying.

He’s 93 years old. He is fading away in the house in which his grandmother lived her life, a house that has been in his family since the nineteenth century – a family that traces its roots back on this land for four hundred years. Santa Fe is an old town, by American standards.

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Two of the featured speakers at Bioneers have recently published editorials that need to be heard in the health care debate. In the New York Times, Michael Pollan laid out the intimate connection between health care and reforming America's broken food system.

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This fine Monday morning in Santa Fe, we received a call at the Bioneers office from a friendly young woman named Tiffany asking us to help her find several DVD’s and audio recordings of one of our plenary speakers at several past Bioneers conference

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Over at the new official Bioneers blog, there is a healthy discussion about a recent attack on Michael Pollan and other critics of industrial agricultur… Continue

Tonight, Bill McKibben, climate change guru, longtime Bioneers friend and founder of the nifty global warming action organization 350.org, will be crossing wits with America's favorite fake gasbag, Stephen "Tyrone" Colbert. Given… Continue